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Old 04-04-2021, 12:42 PM   #1
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In the 90's Carla Zampatti the Australian fashion designer, who recently passed away, worked with Ford and came up with some Lasers and Meteors with her own touch.
One article said she was the first fashion designer to work direct with a motor company styling a car, not sure about that but who knows.



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The lady in the advertising looks like she's from a POW camp in Nazi Germany with how loose her clothes are lol
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The lady in the advertising looks like she's from a POW camp in Nazi Germany with how loose her clothes are lol
Late 80s - 90s fashion franco, honestly, where have you been. Darling.
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Late 80s - 90s fashion franco, honestly, where have you been. Darling.
Ah yes, the late 1980s/early 1990s - back when I was a science experiment gone wrong!

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I'm sorry for you if you never experienced ownership of a loose fitting Miami Vice jacket in the late 80s. Looked cool at the Parkroyal hotel disco.

Unfortunately couldn't afford the Ferrari Daytona to go with it.

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I'm sorry for you if you never experienced ownership of a loose fitting Miami Vice jacket in the late 80s. Looked cool at the Parkroyal hotel disco.

Unfortunately couldn't afford the Ferrari Daytona to go with it.

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I'm more Carla Zampatti Laser rather than Ferrari Daytona budget

Lowes suit jacket and Bintang T-shirt should do the trick
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In the 90's Carla Zampatti the Australian fashion designer, who recently passed away, worked with Ford and came up with some Lasers and Meteors with her own touch.
One article said she was the first fashion designer to work direct with a motor company styling a car, not sure about that but who knows.
Seems there were a few around earlier than that.........more than I would have thought.

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I remember a salesman showing me the blurb on that when I bought my KB Laser S,
it really did nothing for me at the time, different interior and badges...
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I think the first designer cars were massive 1970s yank tanks, like lincoln by givenchy.

Lots of cars did denim interiors. A few VW/fiats in europe, levis in the USA did cars like gremlin.

Also I remember the reebox nissan pulsar. Also golf, sporting tie ins used to be common.

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Gucci also did 1970s AMC Hornet and Cadillac Seville

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I think the first designer cars were massive 1970s yank tanks, like lincoln by givenchy.

Lots of cars did denim interiors. A few VW/fiats in europe, levis in the USA did cars like gremlin.

Also I remember the reebox nissan pulsar. Also golf, sporting tie ins used to be common.
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Also talks about the 'designer series' Continentals in the range, Cartier, givenchy etc.

Complete with neckbeards and elevator music.
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I remember a salesman showing me the blurb on that when I bought my KB Laser S,
it really did nothing for me at the time, different interior and badges...
Zampatti decribed them as the model car for the modern woman.
So maybe the salesman thought you were buying it for your girlfriend/wife
You weren't wearing a pink shirt at the time?
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Zampatti decribed them as the model car for the modern woman.
So maybe the salesman thought you were buying it for your girlfriend/wife
You weren't wearing a pink shirt at the time?
Didn't every male look like this in the 1980s?

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That’s smart casual. People have forgotten the “slash neck” sweaters for men, I may still have one.
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That’s smart casual. People have forgotten the “slash neck” sweaters for men, I may still have one.
Considering this TV show was shot on location in Miami I doubt they would be wearing a sweater. its a Grandad T shirt.
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Yeah, That's what I was thinking of. Those big ford coupes in the 70s with the fake rear mounted spare and the side opera windows was where fashion designers started putting their name on cars.
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Denim interiors - Moke Californian (printed vinyl, actually?), special edition Renault 12 or Virage, can’t remember which but allegedly would stain pale clothes (I think they used proper indigo dyed Egyptian cotton denim).

Remember the Zampatti Laser well - at the time thought those taillights were pretty cool!
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The wheels look like smaller scale variations of the ugly ones fitted to the Lamborghini Diablo from the 1990s.
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Your youthfulness means you probably missed metric rims and the terribly limited choice of tyres they gave. From memory on some of the later ‘80s LTDs…
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Your youthfulness means you probably missed metric rims and the terribly limited choice of tyres they gave. From memory on some of the later ‘80s LTDs…
The only car I've seen with metric wheels is an M635CSI, it had some weird tyre size like 415mm or something



The wheels in the photo were normal replacement for the metric wheels it had.

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My Sister had a Peugeot Car (504 maybe??) with metric Wheels...
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Wont be long, Lloyds will have a barn find one up for grabs
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Yeah, early 80s BMW like that e24 and also some e28s had a metric wheel (trx).
The original 'low profile' tyre and being french, and thinking they don't want anyone else to run their 'low profile' tyres, they made them odd metric sizing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelin_TRX
Wasn't just BMW, a few other euros that used michelin for OE used them.
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Yeah, early 80s BMW like that e24 and also some e28s had a metric wheel (trx).
The original 'low profile' tyre and being french, and thinking they don't want anyone else to run their 'low profile' tyres, they made them odd metric sizing.
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What'd they call it?
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Yes, Peter Wherett used to " dress up ".
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Both PW and his brother gave so much in their engagement with the public, and did well despite a pretty sordid home life.
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Yes, Peter Wherett used to " dress up ".
Its sad though how that because of someones eccentricity that this particular part of his personal life is what people will bring up on mention of his name rather than his significant contributions to automotive 'journalism'.

I use the quotation marks because of what automotive journalism has become in the past 15 years.
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Its sad though how that because of someones eccentricity that this particular part of his personal life is what people will bring up on mention of his name rather than his significant contributions to automotive 'journalism'.

I use the quotation marks because of what automotive journalism has become in the past 15 years.
Agreed, Peter Wherrett was an excellent presenter on Torque and one of the few journo's to walk the talk, being a Rally Driver as well as competing in a few Bathurst's.
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